 Opposite in their character and mission, alike in their magnificence of energy, they came from the North and from the South, the glacier torrent and the lava stream : they met and contended over the wreck of the Roman empire ; and the very centre of the...  Tait's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 289edited by - 1851Full view - About this book
 | John Ruskin - Architecture - 1885 - 970 pages
...magnificence of energy, they came from the North and from the South, the glacier torrent and the lava stream : they met and contended over the wreck of the Roman...pause of both, the dead water of the opposite eddies, cluirgod with embayed fragments of tho Roman wreck, is VENICE. The Ducal palace of Venice contains... | |
 | Birmingham Public Libraries - Best books - 1885 - 210 pages
...glacier torrent and the lava stream ; they met, and contended over the wreck of the Roman Empire ; the very centre of the struggle, the point of pause...embayed fragments of the Roman wreck, is — Venice. The Ducal Palace of Venice contains three elements in exactly equal proportions — the Roman, Lombard,... | |
 | William Kenrick - 1885 - 50 pages
...glacier torrent and the lava stream ; they met, and contended over the wreck of the Roman Empire ; the very centre of the struggle, the point of pause...embayed fragments of the Roman wreck, is — Venice. The Ducal Palace of Venice contains three elements in exactly equal proportions — the Roman, Lombard,... | |
 | John Ruskin, William Sloane Kennedy - Art - 1886 - 610 pages
...magnificence of energy, they came from the North and from the South, the glacier torrent and the lava stream : they met and contended over the wreck of the Roman...with embayed fragments of the Roman wreck, is VENICE. The Ducal Palace of Venice contains the three elements in exactly equal proportions — the Roman,... | |
 | John Ruskin - Art - 1886 - 188 pages
...magnificence of energy, they came from the North and from the South, the glacier torrent and the lava stream : they met and contended over the wreck of the Roman...with embayed fragments of the Roman wreck, is VENICE. The Ducal Palace of Venice contains the three elements in exactly equal proportions — the Roman,... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1887 - 702 pages
...magnificence of energy, they came from the North and from the South, the glacier torrent and the lava stream : they met and contended over the wreck of the Roman...with embayed fragments of the Roman wreck, is VENICE. The Ducal palace of Venice contains the three elements in exactly equal proportions — the Roman,... | |
 | John Ruskin - English literature - 1894 - 512 pages
...magnificence of energy, they came from the North and from the South, the glacier torrent and the lava stream : they met and contended over the wreck of the Roman...with embayed fragments of the Roman wreck, is VENICE. The Ducal palace of Venice contains the three elements in exactly equal proportions — the Roman,... | |
 | Selwyn Brinton - Art, Italian - 1907 - 180 pages
...magnificence of energy, they came from the North and from the South, the glacier torrent and the lava stream ; they met and contended over the wreck of the Roman...the dead water of the opposite eddies, charged with emhayed fragments of the Roman wreck, is Venice." And even when her art under the craftsmen of Murano,... | |
 | Alfred Marshall Hitchcock - English language - 1913 - 430 pages
...magnificence of energy, they came from the North and from the South, the glacier torrent and the lava stream; they met and contended over the wreck of the Roman empire; and the very center of the struggle, the point of pause of both, the dead water of the opposite eddies charged with... | |
 | 1979 - 434 pages
...magnificence of energy, they came from the North and from the South, the glacier torrent and the lava stream: they met and contended over the wreck of the Roman...with embayed fragments of the Roman wreck, is VENICE. The Ducal palace of Venice contains the three elements in exactly equal proportions — the Roman,... | |
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